Recent content by Conjomen

If it was me...if the price went down to a dollar or 1.50 I'd buy like 20 gallons you'd only be risking 20/25 bucks. I have no idea how long it lasts. I think i read a year but don't know how much potency it'll lose. You could test it (maybe 1 ounce to 10 ounces water or some easily divided #)...

Walmart has a drop based kit with a cya test. It comes with oto chlorine test so it'll only go to 5ppm but it'll work if you are going to treat your pool as seasonal and take it down for winter. It's hth brand and around 20 bucks here in south Texas.

GOTTA LOVE A TRAMA NURSE! Lol Just for skips and giggles I tested the tap water vs my pool water, and drumroll please, City h2o has free chlorine 1 Combined chlorine 1 Ph 7.2 Didn't check CYA no reason to Gross do people really drink this stuff? My pool h2o? Free chlorine 4 Combined...

Thought I'd chime in,FWIW. I am a nurse, 15 years, mostly adults but I have many friends who did peds. HFM is nasty no doubt and contagious I've been out of the ER for years and only saw maybe 5 cases in the years i did work it but after the pt was sent home or transfered to the floor we cleaned...

Thanks. I was thinking does he have some secret trick? Lol like a potion i haven't discovered for "perfect weekly " water...it's probably expensive right? No judgment but why would you add extra chemicals to your water? If you get perfectly clear h2o from just bleach? Well that and keeping the...

What's perfect weekly?

Is it possible that the brown stuff is sand? Can you pick it up with your hands, or is it too fine? IMO cloudy water=slam ,but I've had my sand filter dump sand in the pool and make it cloudy then the heavier sand settled on the bottom and it was easy to vacuum. Someone with more knowledge will...

NOT AN EXPERT! Ph tests are unreliable at higher chlorine levels. Basically anything above 10 FC. I'd wait until the FC levels are below 10ppm and restest the PH.

@pagirl... I don't think it's a coincidence. I have noticed the same thing with my kids. They swim for hours every day at our house no ear infections. ONE TIME swimming at a public pool and the little one gets an ear infection? I'm thinking it's something different in "those" other pools. It's...

My kids doc says he thinks it's bacteria in the h2o. My son just got over an external ear infection from swimming in a public pool. It was a birthday party for my cousin. Be a good experiment to check ph and stuff. We are going to another party this weekend(same pool). I wonder if I can sneak a...

Lmao...what is "Special salt" SMH...it should probably be "overpriced salt " probably saved you a boatload of money, I'd be grateful he wouldn't sell it to her. Side note can you return the tablets?

Maybe a stupid question but....What is TSP?

NOT AN EXPERT! Just wanted to say that. I'm pretty sure you'll need to adjust the ph down before you add chlorine. Ph tests are unreliable at higher chlorine levels. I use dry acid from Walmart (in the pool chem section ) to adjust my ph down. It's a small white bucket with a yellow lid, it...

Lmao I was kinda thinking the same thing...I have absolutely nothing to go on other than the descriptions on the websites selling the stuff. Kinda like buying a used car cause the salesman said it's great. Supposedly some of the other filter media can filter down to the same level as de...just...

Hello all! 3 months ago I bought an intex above ground pool. A couple days ago the pump died. (RIP) I mean completely dead. Will not even power on. So the store i purchased from has a 90 day return policy. I started draining and cleaning the pool yesterday to return it to the store.I will get a...